mackro

It was friday evening, Oct 19th 2007. Right over the Canadian Rockies, right over Jasper, Alberta, approximately. (12:30am, Sat. morning?)

I had a window seat and looked out while over the Canadian Rockies. I saw what I initially thought were big baseball field lights, but the lights were behaving strangely. Then I realized a second later that mountains don’t usually have very large baseball fields!

The passenger next to me who lives in Edmonton confirmed for me that these were the Northern Lights.

Wow.

I didn’t expect anything from a sci-fi movie, but the movement of the lights were much faster and more magical that I expected.

It looked like, if you flipped the sky upside down, there were isolated glow-in-the-dark showers. There were vertical streams of light that would brighten while the areas in between would become dimmer only to morph back into a haze again.

It was cloudy in both Seattle and Edmonton, so I had to see all of this on the plane above the clouds. I have to say this plane trip goes down in history for obvious reasons.

Because of the plane lighting, I couldn’t snap a photo, but these are the types of things best seen with your own eyes. Pictures don’t do the experience justice, no matter the color.

It’s interesting looking back at this goal, as it seems many states had a similar idea.

I talked with people in Washington state, and they didn’t it was worth pursuing. In fact, there was motion to demote the primary down to a caucus here.

I mainly wanted to do this to give Washington state a national impact in the election, but perhaps there are better ways to do that than something like this.

That place has become a home for me. The Dish is great. But the guy who I knew there the most no longer works there.